"Buy 1 for yourself and get the chance to sell your friends and family 5 and get your downline started!" We examine the multi-level marketing industry, where only the people who come up with the ideas make any money, and everybody else is left unhappy, broke, and tired of reading scripts and selling overpriced vitamins and similarly worthless products. Includes Global Prosperity, Pinnacle Quest International, IRS Codebusters, Stratia, and other new Global Prosperity scams.

I've thought about this for years and the more I think about it, the more is sounds like a good idea.

What if someone set up a fake MLM? It would consist of just a website with all the usual sales pitches. We would even "sell" a phony product. Something that had all the usual markers for a MLM product. There'd be a compensation plan posted so it looks completely "open." Even fake testimonials, etc.

But then they'd go to order one of the starter packages or the product. Maybe even go so far as to allow them to try to enter a credit card number (I'm thinking it'd lock them out after entering the first four digits so there's no risk of credit card fraud accusations). Then it'd hit them with the reality - they fell for a typical illegal MLM pitch. And then it would tell them why their decision to order would leave them worse off financially.

It wouldn't happen anytime soon, but I thought it be fun to kick the ball around a bit.

JamesVincent wrote:It sounds like a hoot Web but how far from false advertising would that hit? I could see some yahoo trying to sue you since you did not follow through with your great plan.

Since they wouldn't be allowed to pay for anything, it'd be hard for them to prove damages.

Proven damages or no, someone must pay for their hurt feelings.

"No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor." - President Theodore Roosevelt

I was thinking of sure-fire, no-can-lose, super-duper sovereign de-taxation kits, which are guaranteed to work (unlike all the others, THIS one uses all of the magic legal words and incantations CORRECTLY).

"We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture." -- Pastor Ray Mummert, Dover, PA, during an attempt to introduce creationism -- er, "intelligent design", into the Dover Public Schools

I was thinking that nutritional products seem to be really big right now, so that's probably going to be a big "seller." One would have to be "marketed" as a super supplement. The description would have to tout its amazingly high levels of some made-up herbs which cure common symptoms of life. Like fatique, stress, arthritis, overreating, water retention, acne, bad hair, erectile dysfunction, brain farts, etc

I was thinking that nutritional products seem to be really big right now, so that's probably going to be a big "seller." One would have to be "marketed" as a super supplement. The description would have to tout its amazingly high levels of some made-up herbs which cure common symptoms of life. Like fatique, stress, arthritis, overreating, water retention, acne, bad hair, erectile dysfunction, brain farts, etc

Good idea. Tonight, I'll get to work with some empty gelatin capsules, glucose, some baking soda, some cayenne pepper powder and some powdered charcoal.

"We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture." -- Pastor Ray Mummert, Dover, PA, during an attempt to introduce creationism -- er, "intelligent design", into the Dover Public Schools

I was thinking that nutritional products seem to be really big right now, so that's probably going to be a big "seller." One would have to be "marketed" as a super supplement. The description would have to tout its amazingly high levels of some made-up herbs which cure common symptoms of life. Like fatique, stress, arthritis, overreating, water retention, acne, bad hair, erectile dysfunction, brain farts, etc

Just edit down some of Erasmus's blatherings, especially the Vatican Bread.

webhick wrote:I was thinking that nutritional products seem to be really big right now, so that's probably going to be a big "seller." One would have to be "marketed" as a super supplement. The description would have to tout its amazingly high levels of some made-up herbs which cure common symptoms of life. Like fatique, stress, arthritis, overreating, water retention, acne, bad hair, erectile dysfunction, brain farts, etc

You forgot the "as used for thousands of years by the Lost Tribes of the Amazon" MLM deal sealer.

Cathulhu wrote:Have you thought about what kind of "product" your MLM will sell? Magic beans?

One of the products I use quite a bit trying to help customer's yards is called Magi-Cal. I tried to tell someone to buy it one time and it degenerated into him telling me that maybe I should buy magic beans instead of a magic cow.

Lift me up above this, the flames and the ashes,Lift me up and help me to fly away.Lift me up above this, the broken, the empty,Lift me up and help me to fly away,Lift me up!

webhick wrote:I was thinking that nutritional products seem to be really big right now, so that's probably going to be a big "seller." One would have to be "marketed" as a super supplement. The description would have to tout its amazingly high levels of some made-up herbs which cure common symptoms of life. Like fatique, stress, arthritis, overreating, water retention, acne, bad hair, erectile dysfunction, brain farts, etc

You forgot the "as used for thousands of years by the Lost Tribes of the Amazon" MLM deal sealer.

Also add something like "and suppressed by Big Pharma".

"We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture." -- Pastor Ray Mummert, Dover, PA, during an attempt to introduce creationism -- er, "intelligent design", into the Dover Public Schools

Don't do the tax advice, do a juice drink concentrate that works out to a final retail price of about $35 a gallon. I'm always amazed by the people who raise the roof over $4 gas who then pay ten times that for a off flavor cranberry juice.